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5 App ideas people are asking for on Reddit right nowhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618992I've been spending the last few months doing something simple — reading Reddit and HN threads where people describe problems they're actively experiencing. Not trends. Not market reports. Just real complaints.I track these daily, score them by how painful and frequent they are, and catalog them. I've collected over 1,500 so far.Here are 5 from this week that stood out.1. Accounting Workflow Automation Accountants in public firms keep posting about drowning in manual data entry, reconciliation, and report generation. The burnout is real. Existing tools integrate poorly with each other. There's room for something focused and simple that just automates the repetitive stuff.2. Indexing Analysis Tool SEO professionals are constantly asking why their pages aren't being indexed by Google. There are tools that tell you what IS indexed but almost nothing that diagnoses WHY something isn't. This comes up weekly across multiple subreddits.3. WordPress Malware Scanner WordPress sites getting hit tApr 2, 2026 7:22 PM
github.com
Show HN: Deckard, Claude-first terminal managerhttps://github.com/gi11es/deckardAfter a year of producing all my code through Claude Code, I was growing frustrated with losing Terminal tabs and not noticing when sessions are ready to continue. I looked around at all the terminal managers people have been building for this type of workflow and couldn't find anything that worked for me. Cmux came close but was too buggy in the area I cared the most about: knowing when my sessions are ready for input. I also felt like the sidebar was too cluttered and hard to parse visually.So, I made my own Claude-first terminal manager and optimized it for the habits I've developed over the past year in this new way of creating software.Claude Code terminals are the focus in Deckard, with classic terminals being also supported, but treated separately.I feel like it's stable enough to share now, but I'm sure rough edges will be surfaced quickly under HN's scrutiny, and that's the point of sharing it here. For example I'm still not quite happy with the fact that if you enable tmux, tApr 2, 2026 1:39 PM
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Show HN: EU RegTech SaaS for sale – CBAM, AI Act, French tenders ($5K each)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600569I built three SaaS products targeting mandatory EU regulations and I'm selling each for $5,000.1. CBAM OS (https://cbam-os.com) — EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism compliance. 9 modules covering the full CBAM workflow. Every EU importer of covered goods (steel, aluminum, cement, fertilizers, electricity, hydrogen) must comply. ~100K+ potential customers. Plans: 199/399/999 per month.2. AIA Proof (https://aiaproof.com) — EU AI Act compliance and AI content detection. The AI Act is enforceable — fines up to 35M or 7% of global turnover. Every company deploying AI in the EU is a potential customer. Plans: 299/799/2,499 per month.3. AO France (https://ao-france.fr) — AI-powered French public tender responses. France publishes 200K+ tenders/year worth 200B+. Plans: Solo/Pro/Business + 49 per tender.Stack: Next.js (App Router), Vercel, Stripe, Supabase.I'm selling to focus on my next project. $5,000 each or $12,000 for all three.Contact: abbas.billel1985@gmail.comApr 1, 2026 1:27 PM
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Nexus – Agent-native ops platform for ecommerce MCP, self-registration, no demoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592445Hi HN,I'm Karim, based in Cairo. I run an ecommerce operations company and built Nexus to solve my own problem: 6 disconnected tools that never talked to each other.Nexus covers the full ops stack: CRM, orders, inventory, fulfillment, shipping, and omnichannel messaging (WhatsApp/FB/IG) in one platform.The agent-native part: AI agents self-register via a single POST request, exchange a key for a JWT, and connect to an MCP server with 22 tools covering the entire business. No human approval. No demo. No sales call.Free tier = read-only. Write access = paid plan. The agent proves value first.This isn't MENA-specific — fully remote and self-maintained. An operator in Jakarta runs the same workflows as one in Cairo.2 paying customers. Happy to answer questions on: architecture (Supabase + Deno Edge Functions), multi-tenant RLS, or the agent-native business model.MCP discovery: https://nexus.aiforstartups.io/.well-known/mcp.json Agent docs: https://nexus-docs.aiforstartups.io/api/ai-agents-Mar 31, 2026 7:45 PM
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Show HN: Dograh – voice agents that pick Recordings over TTS using LLMhttps://github.com/dograh-hq/dograhTL;DR: Dograh is an open-source platform to build voice AI agents with drag-and-drop workflows. New in v1.20: Gemini 3.1 live support, Pre-recorded audio support for lower latency and more natural responses. Fully self-hostable, no vendor lock-in.Hi HN,We’re the Dograh team (YC alumni). While building voice bots, we found that wiring WebRTC/ Telephony + STT + LLM + TTS took more time than the bots themselves. Teams are spending weeks on plumbing - handling call flows, extracting variables, dealing with telephony edge cases, and redeploying for small changes. Tools like Vapi/Retell are easy to start with but come with lock-in and platform fees. So we built Dograh: a 100% open-source platform that handles the full stack, with a visual workflow builder and self-hosting by default.Dograh v1.20 introduces two major additions: 1. Gemini 3.1 Live support Run fully real-time voice agents using Gemini’s streaming APIs, without stitching together separate STT + LLM + TTS components. 2. Pre-recorMar 31, 2026 6:28 PM
recursive.systems
Show HN: Interactive recursive tool that warps what traditional consultants dohttps://recursive.systems/recursive. systemsI built a tool that turns plain language into interactive system maps based on Stafford Beer's Viable System Model.You can type in a specific company - Boeing, NHS, Tesla - and it uses LLM knowledge to map out the structural diagnosis. You can describe a problem, ask a broad or specific question like "why do large companies lose innovation?" or "what makes a hospital function?" , or just name something you're curious about. It generates a structural diagram with operational units, coordination paths, control layers, intelligence channels, and policy structure, along with hypotheses about where things might be breaking down.No signup. Desktop only. Click an example prompt or type your own.It maps signal flow between layers - information, feedback, decisions, risk - and flags where signals aren't reaching the right place, are being ignored, arrive too late, or overload the system. Systems usually fail not because the structure is wrong but because the flows of informatiMar 28, 2026 12:10 AM
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Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents' - The Registerhttps://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipgFBVV95cUxNbkk5WENlVE1YeFl2ZEp1NVBmQ1djOWFiSWg4YkpkMlZ4WG5FcW1tOGFiWTJxRU0xcmdwQWc2ZzM0Mld4Zm5Vc0RJWGVyMTliaGttV1BPRFQ1Q045bUl3Zi1RRTNnUUlLWlVKVzMzRVpuY3lFSXBQU3J6cnZLRk5pNVY1Q3JDSWxPbTloWTRTRTZTT0xna2Izb0RubnphSll2WmZuTGdR?oc=5Mozilla introduces cq, describing it as 'Stack Overflow for agents' The RegisterMar 24, 2026 7:00 AM
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StackOverflow's questions per day have fallen 99%https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/433864/do-you-agree-with-gergely-that-stack-overflow-is-almost-deadMar 24, 2026 4:04 AM
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Show HN: PostgreSQL backup manager with BTRFS block-level deduplicationhttps://github.com/Lakshmipathi/pgdedupI wrote BTRFS block level de-duplication sometime in 2020 as use-case for a patch sent in 2015 https://stackoverflow.com/a/34163236 and now after 6 more years created an use-case for dduper via pgdedup!How it works? Consecutive pg_basebackup snapshots share most of their blocks. Store them uncompressed on BTRFS and let dduper deduplicate it.Interestingly: - gzip completely breaks block-level dedup. Two pg_basebackup -z runs of the same database produce < 1% matching blocks. - Chunk size matters hugely. dduper's default 128KB chunks only found 19% savings. Lowering to 8KB (PostgreSQL's page size) jumped to 68%.Mar 24, 2026 12:21 AM
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Flowroute locked my account after passing identity verification, won't say whyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47490967I manage VoIP infrastructure for several organizations using Flowroute and 3CX. Real businesses, real clients, real dependency on uptime. A few weeks ago Flowroute killed my account. My balance went negative. A billing email hit my spam folder and I missed it. I am human. Apparently that is disqualifying.The Verification Rather than call me on the business phone number they had on file, a phone company calling the phone, they demanded identity verification through Persona. I submitted a government ID, a facial biometric scan, and LLC documents. Persona verified everything. Flowroute still said no.The Email"Thank you for completing the Persona verification process. After a thorough review, we regret to inform you that the verification was not approved. For security and compliance reasons, we are unable to disclose the specific details regarding the outcome."I cannot appeal a reason I am not allowed to know. I cannot correct a mistake that will never be named. When I raised business contMar 23, 2026 3:37 PM
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Skills are quietly becoming the unit of agent knowledgehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47475832In the last few months agent skills went from a niche Claude Code feature to something every major runtime supports. Anthropic has an official skills repo. OpenAI shipped skills in Codex with a built-in skill-creator. Karpathy talks about "everything is skill issue" and describes writing skills as curricula for agents [1]. The format is converging: a folder with a SKILL.md, optional scripts, optional reference files.What changed is that the models got good enough to follow written instructions reliably. A skill is just a tested workflow in markdown that the agent reads and follows instead of improvising. You can also bundle scripts that the agent runs during the workflow, which covers what most people use lightweight MCP servers for, except the agent can read the script source and extend it.Karpathy talks about an "economy of agents" and says we should stop writing HTML docs for humans and start writing markdown docs for agents [1]. Anthropic just shipped a skill-creator that benchmarkMar 22, 2026 9:32 AM
ctxoverflow.dev
Show HN: Context Overflow – a Stack Overflow for AI Agentshttps://www.ctxoverflow.dev/Hey HN,After using a bunch of agents, my friend and I noticed a major issue: an agent could spend a bunch of time solving a tricky task, but when the session ended all that knowledge vanishes. Even if I told my agent to remember it locally, there was no way for agents to learn from each other.We built Context Overflow as a way to turn isolated AI sessions into shared, reusable context. With Context Overflow, agents can: - Search through past solutions when starting a task - Ask questions when they get stuck - Share findings when they solve a non-trivial problemWe support a variety of ways to connect your agents: agent skills, OpenClaw instructions, MCP, CLI, and directly through a REST API.The project is also completely open-source, so feel free to check out the code and contribute.https://www.ctxoverflow.devgithub: https://github.com/sahilmahendrakar/context-overflowMar 20, 2026 1:04 PM
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Stack Overflow lays off approx 40 staffhttps://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/417803/thank-you-v2blast-again-rosie-slate-charlotte-hoid-grace-note-kyle-pollMar 20, 2026 4:47 AM
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Launch HN: Voltair (YC W26) – Drone and charging network for power utilitieshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442452Hey HN! We’re Hayden, Ronan, Avi, and Warren of Voltair (https://voltairlabs.com/). We’re making weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones deployed for power utility inspections.Here’s some footage: https://vimeo.com/1173862237/ac28095cc6?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=... and a photo of our latest prototype: https://imgur.com/a/bYHnqZ4.The U.S. has 7M miles of power lines (enough to go to the moon and back 14 times), and they're aging. Over 50% of all power flows through transformers that are at least 30 years old, which is about when they start to fail.Power line conductors are just bare metal with 4,000-765,000 volts sitting on ceramic insulators, usually held up by pieces of wood. It’s a cost effective and relatively reliable way to move power. But when the wood starts to rot, or the cotter pin falls out, and a live conductor is dropped on a dead tree on a windy day, you get devastating wildfires like the Palisades Fire in LA last year.Most utilities solve this problem with foot patrols. Linemen driveMar 19, 2026 4:57 PM
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Show HN: AgentDeals – Developer pricing discovery for AI agentshttps://github.com/robhunter/agentdealsWhen Claude Code or Cursor recommends you sign up for Railway, it has no idea that Render has a better free tier, or if Railway just killed its free plan last week. Your agent is making infrastructure recommendations from memory, which is mostly fine for featuresets but not great for pricing.AgentDeals is a structured index of 1,525 developer infrastructure deals across 54 categories (cloud hosting, databases, CI/CD, monitoring, auth, APIs, and more). It tracks deal changes too, like which free tiers disappeared, which got limits cut, which ones improved.Three ways to use it: 1. Browse: https://agentdeals.dev 2. REST API: /api/offers, /api/categories, /api/changes (no auth) 3. MCP server: connect from Claude, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, or any MCP clientThe MCP server has four intent-based tools - search_deals, plan_stack, compare_vendors, track_changes - so your agent can query deals as part of its normal workflow. "Find me free database hosting" or "what changed in the last 30 days?" wiMar 19, 2026 1:42 PM
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MCP servers mass-forked and republished – supply-chain attack vectorhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428217I'm the developer of an MCP server (AiDex — code indexing with Tree-sitter, github.com/CSCSoftware/AiDex). I recently discovered that an organization called iflow-mcp is systematically forking hundreds of MCP servers on GitHub, republishing them under their own npm scope (@iflow-mcp/) and on PyPI, and distributing them through their own "marketplace" — without ever contacting the original authors.But the real problem isn't the fork itself. The real problem is security.---*What's happening*The forks are published under the pattern @iflow-mcp/originalauthor-projectname. The familiar name of the original creates trust — but the code the user actually gets is entirely under a third party's control. Nothing prevents that third party from modifying the code before publishing.*Why MCP servers are particularly dangerous*An MCP server is not a harmless plugin. By design, it has deep access:- It reads your source code, navigates your filesystem, receives file contents - It can see .env files, APMar 18, 2026 4:58 PM
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Lava Flows Down Mayonhttps://www.nasa.gov/image-article/lava-flows-down-mayon/The OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 8 acquired this rare, relatively clear image of Mayon, the most active volcano in the Philippines, on Feb. 26, 2026. The natural-color scene is overlaid with infrared observations to highlight the lava’s heat signature. On that day, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) reported volcanic earthquakes, rockfalls, and hot clouds of ash […]Mar 18, 2026 3:19 PM
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Show HN: FreeFlow – Open-Source Wispr Flowhttps://github.com/build-trust/freeflowHi HN!Voice is fast-becoming my primary interface to computers and AI. I built FreeFlow because I wanted a Wispr Flow-like experience for our entire team, but customizable and private.Press a hotkey, dictate naturally, polished text appears in any app. Ramble, use filler words, correct yourself mid-sentence. FreeFlow turns messy speech into clean writing and injects it wherever your cursor is: your messaging app, your editor, your coding agent, the terminal, email, anything.Demo (sound on): https://github.com/build-trust/freeflow#demo-sound-on-It's really fast. The injection feels instantaneous. In my benchmarks two thirds of dictations finish in under 0.6 seconds. To get that speed, the app streams audio to your private server over a persistent WebSocket while you speak, and a realtime speech-to-text model transcribes incrementally, so by the time you release the key the transcript is mostly done. Two independent WebSocket connections race each other, and if both fail, an HTTP batch fMar 17, 2026 12:00 PM
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Show HN: Deploy a full autonomous AI org from a single YAML filehttps://zero-human-labs.comShow HN: Deploy a full autonomous AI org from a single YAML fileI built Zero Human Labs after spending too much time babysitting AI agent pipelines — manually routing tasks, watching API costs spiral, and debugging coordination failures. With Zero Human Labs, you define your entire agent team (devs, designers, ops, etc.) in one YAML file. Tasks are routed automatically via a sealed-bid auction — each agent bids based on specialization and track record, and the best one wins the task. No manual assignment, no coordination overhead. Key things that make it different: Per-agent wallets + org-level budget caps → no runaway API spend Circuit breakers → agents that misbehave get frozen automatically Smart model routing → saves 30–80% on AI API costs by matching request complexity to the right model Governance presets calibrated from 146 SWARM simulation runs across 43 agent types Free demo at zero-human-labs.com — 1 agent, 1 example workflow, open-source models. Would love feedback from the Mar 16, 2026 5:39 PM
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Show HN: I built a release tracker for my indie appshttps://drobinin.com/apps/docket/Over the past year I shipped a bunch of iOS and visionOS apps, and the messy part was often not the code but everything around the release - future plans, bug and feature requests buried in reviews, App Store in-app events, featuring nominations, blog drafts, launch posts, and random ideas I got when scrolling HN.I tried using general-purpose tools for this (Notes, Obsidian, Trello, and Jira to name a few), but they were either built around sprints, story points, team workflows, and tickets, or did only a part of what I needed well. What I actually wanted was a single place to track releases and all the admin/marketing/store work that comes with them.I ended up building a wee app for that purpose specifically. Today it is mainly aimed at indie Apple-platform devs. It syncs with App Store Connect, pulls in apps, events and nominations, lets me track launch content alongside releases, and has a CLI/MCP server for terminal/AI-driven workflows. It runs natively on macOS, iOS and iPadOS.It Mar 14, 2026 3:11 PM
